... and Affordable Care Act's focus on quality of care and other federal initiatives. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services increasingly factors patients' satisfaction into its quality measures, which are linked to the size of Medicare payments ...
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... would add to the burdens on the poor and middle class by repealing the Affordable Care Act and taking money out of Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program. The fairer solution is a tough one and, alas, one that we are unlikely to adopt. ...
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... met yet. Many of these folks are navigating insurance coverage for the first time, and the privatized version of Medicaid already creates some additional layers of bureaucratic confusion . Some will likely be confused about whether their coverage is ...
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Health insurance executives and lobbyists have for years told us that one of the main reasons they charge us so much for coverage is the cost shifting that results from Uncle Sam's stinginess. The story goes like this: hospitals are paid so inadequately by government programs like Medicare and Medicaid that they have to charge private insurers more to keep their doors open.
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... offering all seven medications as required. "About 70 percent of all smokers want to quit, and people who are on Medicaid and who have been historically uninsured are those with the highest smoking rates," Erika Sward, assistant vice president for ...
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Medicaid expansion doesn't benefit only the 35,000 New Hampshire residents who previously didn't have access to health insurance, it's also keeping elder care costs down and helping businesses Among the more notable features of a state budget recommended by the House Finance Committee is a proposed and ill-advised decision to end New Hampshire's unique version of
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... : Before the act, a large majority of Americans were already covered by their employers, by Medicare or by Medicaid, and they have seen no change in their status. At a deeper level, however, what we're looking at here is the impact of post-truth ...
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... a recently begun five-year study of the plan's implementation. The study also satisfies a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services federal waiver requirement to commission an independent evaluation of the Healthy Michigan Plan. Snyder and MDCH ...
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... Kentucky - of which $506 million went to hospitals - to pay for the more than 400,000 people who joined the state's Medicaid program under the federal Affordable Care Act. The report did cover the first few years of Kentucky's switch to managed care ...
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... But it's only 3.2 percent of the state's General Fund operating budget for 2014-15. Even adding in the $186 million Medicaid contingency fund established last year would raise the ratio of unencumbered reserves to spending to just 4.1 percent. ...
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Private health care providers cannot sue to force states to raise their Medicaid reimbursement rates to keep up with rising medical costs, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. In a 5-4 decision the broke across ideological lines, the justices said medical companies have no private right to enforce federal Medicaid funding laws against states if Congress has not created such a right.
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According to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology's proposed 2015 Certification Criteria released yesterday for public comment, hospitals would have the option to qualify for electronic health record incentive payments for Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' proposed Meaningful Use Stage 3 of EHR Incentive Programs by electronically reporting antimicrobial use and antimicrobial resistance data to CDC's National Healthcare Safety Network .
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... dropped health insurance coverage altogether, driving students to surf the health insurance exchanges, apply for Medicaid, or give up entirely and pay a penalty instead. While some students may end up with better deals off campus, some college ...
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled in a case from Idaho that private medical providers that deliver residential care services cannot sue a state in try to raise Medicaid reimbursement rates to deal with rising medical costs. The justices, on a 5-4 vote, ruled in favor of the state of Idaho, which asserted that medical providers have no legal recourse to sue.
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that private medical providers that deliver residential care services in Idaho cannot sue the state in order to raise Medicaid reimbursement rates to deal with rising medical costs. The justices, on a 5-4 vote, ruled in favor of the state of Idaho, which asserted that medical providers have no legal recourse to sue.
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